What we’re about
The Austin Love Juggernaut is your guide to Austin-area events designed to build connection, community, and empathy in our city!
How we communicate shapes our world. Whether it's with ourselves, our friends, our romantic partners, or with coffeeshop strangers, our lives are constantly affected by an interpersonal play-space that we barely understand. Until now! We host and offer a variety of events that explore that space between us, learning to become more authentic in our own self-expression and more attuned and empathetic in our connections to others!
Some of our offerings include:
Authentic Relating Games - Authentic Relating Games are a collection of extensively tested, masterfully facilitated experiences that give players a hands-on taste of both the joy and skills of interpersonal connection.Empathy training of the sort offered by Authentic Relating has been shown to reduce bullying in schools, decrease expulsion and detention rates, and even improve creativity and innovation at work. Our games help players tune into their intuitive truth and see the world through another's eyes. We challenge players to listen and reflect in realtime, to share their emotional state, to notice and reach into their desire, and to ask for what they truly want in the moment. From meditative depths of presence and ecstatic heights of joy, to somber melancholy and heart-pounding fun, we guide an experience all the way through the human condition.
T-Group - T-Group is an invitation to be radically present in the Here and Now. So often our connections to others wander away from the present moment, dwelling in our stories about the fast or our hopes and fears about the future. T-Group calls us to Be Here Now with each other, to fully enjoy and embrace the moment just as it is!
Circling - Circling is an experiment in the emergent intelligence of group consciousness, a meditation on the lived experience of being human, together! We might explore deeply into the experience of one person, discovering what it's like to inhabit their world. Or, we might spend time exploring the shared experience of being together as a group, finding ways of being together that are more alive, more aware, more welcoming of things just as they are while also stretching and evolving toward what is possible!
....and Many More
ABOUT US
The Austin Love Juggernaut is a project of Connect Humanity, an Austin-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization devoted to fostering connection, compassion, and empathy for all of humanity.
Our organization includes a rich and varied roster of event hosts and facilitators, each of whom brings their own unique flavor to that mission!
BE PART OF OUR CALENDAR!
We welcome other not-for-profit organizations to participate in this shared calendar of events at no cost - please contact our Organizers to request to be added!
We also welcome for-profit organizations that are sponsors of our organization to add events to the calendar. Whether you are already a donor, or wish to donate for the first time, contact our Organizers so you can spread your message to our engaged community of enthusiasts for emotional intelligence, skillful relating, and the collaborative co-creation of community!
Upcoming events
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Authentic Relating for Founders and Friends *FREE*
Capital Factory, 701 Brazos street, 1st floor, Austin, TX, USFREE PARKING IN OMNI GARAGE!
- Ever been to a networking event, so bored you can't wait to leave?
- Or on a date, looking at your phone and ready to bounce?
- Or a dinner party where the person is droning on and on and won't quit?
They all have something in common: you think the problem is out there, but even if that's true, with a little practice you can always make it come alive!
Come to Authentic Relating for Founders and Friends (which is basically anyone), where you gain the skills—and most importantly, practice them—to turn small talk into real connections. It doesn't matter if you are socially awkward like I was (ok, sometimes still am), or if you're the life of the party: you will improve your communication and gain the ninja skill to transform boredom into fascination.
And don't worry about having to sit through a tedious lecture: we spend nearly all the time playing communication games with others. That means more:
- Meeting new people
- Having authentic connections
- Experiencing people ACTUALLY LISTENING TO YOU
Crazy, huh? If you ever watched Fight Club and were frustrated with interactions where people were just waiting for their turn to talk, THIS IS FOR YOU.
Each week will be different games, and you will embody more:
- Emotional Intelligence
- Relational acuity
- Conversational flow
- Secure boundaries
I especially welcome anyone who believes they're not good at talking to people or are unsure if this is right for them. Please reach out privately and we can have a brief 1x1 to see if it works for you.
The evening will go something like this:
6:00 Doors open - Icebreaker
6:15 Official begin
7:45 Official end
8:30 Hard close
Facilitated by Shawn Lauzon, an ART International-certified Authentic Relating Facilitator with over 10 years of experience—after 20 years of having no clue how to talk with people.
Thank you to Station Austin for sponsoring Authentic Relating for Founders and Friends. Station Austin is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They bring together the best entrepreneurs in the state and connect them with their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. To sign up for a Station Austin membership, click he1 attendee
Past events
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